colorate

English

Etymology 1

color +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌləɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

colorate (third-person singular simple present colorates, present participle colorating, simple past and past participle colorated)

1. To apply color to something; to make colorful.

Etymology 2

Latin colōrātus, past participle of colōrō (“I color”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌləɹət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

colorate (comparative more colorate, superlative most colorate)

1. (obsolete) Colored.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     had the tunicles and humours of the eye , all , or any of them , been colorate , many of the rays proceeding from the viſible object would have been stopped and ſuffocated before they could come to the bottom

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

colorate

1. inflection of colorare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

colorate f pl

1. feminine plural of colorato

Anagrams

• colatore, locatore

Latin

Verb

colōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of colōrō

References

• “colorate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• colorate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

colorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of colorar combined with te